Indigent Senior News Today

The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Field Office VI has announced a significant increase in the monthly social pension for indigent senior citizens, from P500 to P1,000 per month.

The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), through its Field Office in the National Capital Region (NCR), extended assistance on Tuesday

In an interview over DWPM’s Pintig ng Bayan with Joyce Balancio and Johnson Manabat, Asst. Sec. Lopez, who is also the DSWD spokesperson, emphasized there are

BUTUAN CITY—Members of the Socorro Bayanihan Services Inc. (SBSI) admitted to giving donations to the group out of their stipends from the different programs of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD). This was discovered during the validation on the reported surrender of cash aid and other social welfare benefits such as senior citizen’s

The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) hopes for the approval of the additional funding for the Social Pension for Indigent Senior Citizens

The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) handed over a total of Php 44.45 million worth of assistance to the beneficiaries of the Sustainable

At least P44,410,000 cash aid was turned over by the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) to Batangas local government units (LGUs) as support for its implementation of the agency's social assistance programs. Photo courtesy of Manila Bulletin Visual Content Group This amount wi

With the lapsing into law of a bill that increases the monthly pension of indigent senior citizens from P500 to P1,000, House Deputy Speaker Ralph Recto urged both the executive and legislative branches to find the P25 billion needed to make the bill’s promise into reality. Batangas Rep. Ral

A lawmaker on Sunday urged the Senate to act on a House bill seeking to double to P1,000 the monthly pension of some 3.8 million indigent senior citizens. Rep. Michael T. Defensor of Anakalusugan made a call on the Senate to pass House Bill (HB) 9459, as a presidential proclamation…

DSWD Listahan 3 nears completion